City In Review: Chicago

Mckinley Park · Then vs Now

Mckinley Park: 2025-01 vs 2026-01

A side-by-side look at how Mckinley Park shifted between two periods.

2025-01 2026-01 Change
Building permits 10 9 -10%
Construction value ($) $764,600 $1,289,539 +69%
New business licenses 6 44 +633%
Business closings (proxy) 0 0
311 service requests 536 515 -4%
Reported crimes 94 64 -32%
Violent crimes 27 20 -26%
Failed food inspections 0 0

2025-01

McKinley Park permit value jumps 62% to $765k

Ten permits worth $765,000 cleared in January, up from $471,000 the month prior. Half were filed through the express program; three involved new construction. Service requests climbed 16% to 536, with graffiti removal leading at 143 calls—triple the next-highest category. Crime ticked up 12% to 94 incidents, 27 of them violent. No new business licenses or closures showed up in the data.

2026-01

McKinley Park permit value triples to $1.3M

Permit value in McKinley Park jumped 213% to nearly $1.3 million in January, even as the count fell from 11 to 9. Six of those nine were express permits. New businesses included Five Below #7279, a Shell filling station that also got a retail food license, and Tio's Tamales & Catering. Crime dropped 21% to 64 incidents; violent offenses fell from 24 to 20. Graffiti removal topped 311 requests at 107, followed by 73 pothole complaints. Service requests overall dipped 4.5% to 515.

New businesses — 2025-01

  • CLARK (Tobacco)
  • ONE STOP MARKET (Package Goods)
  • DENZILT J. GARCIA (Shared Housing Unit Operator)
  • ONE STOP MARKET (Retail Food Establishment)
  • ONE STOP MARKET (Tobacco)
  • Pet Supplies Plu (Animal Care License)

New businesses — 2026-01

  • Five Below #7279 (Limited Business License)
  • SHELL (Filling Station)
  • SHELL (Retail Food Establishment)
  • AMIBERICA INC. (Manufacturing Establishments)
  • SEE ALL INDUSTRIES INC (Limited Business License)
  • ONE STOP MARKET (Tobacco)
  • Window Place Corp (Limited Business License)
  • TIO'S TAMALES & CATERING (Retail Food Establishment)
  • ABACUS/ATLAS SCALE CO INC (Limited Business License)
  • COMPLETE, INC. (Limited Business License)